400 FANCY PIGEONS. 



the type on title-page. The woodcuts are by Harrison Weir. 

 The first edition, dated 1854 late editions have no date 

 was my first pigeon book, purchased, as I see from the date 

 on it, in October, 1854. I saw it in a bookseller's window 

 one day when trudging home from school, and began to save 

 up immediately for its acquisition. I soon had it by heart, 

 and such passages as " Tumblers, saith Willughby, are small, 

 and of divers colours; they have strange motions, turning 

 themselves backward over their head, and show like footballs 

 in the air," are indelibly imprinted on my memory. 



(4.) " PIGEON KEEPING. By E. Sabastian Delamer. London : 

 George Routledge & Sons. Ninety-four pages." No date (pub- 

 lished 1885). This is merely the pigeon part of " Pigeons and 

 Babbits," printed from the stereotype plates. It has no 

 illustrations. 



(1.) "A TREATISE ON THE ART OP BREEDING AND MANAG- 

 ING THE ALMOND TUMBLER. By John Matthews Eaton. 

 Published for the Author, 7, Islington Green, London. 1851." 

 Large 8vo. Pages i.-vj., and 7-50. Coloured Plate of Almond 

 Tumbler, by Dean Wolstenholme. 



(2.) "A TREATISE ON THE ART OF BREEDING AND MANAG- 

 ING TAME, DOMESTIC, AND FANCY PIGEONS. By John 

 Matthews Eaton. Published for, and to be obtained of, the 

 Author, 7, Islington Green, London. 1852." Large 8vo. Pages 

 i.-xxij., 23-88 ; i.-vj., 7-50 ; i.-viij., or 146 in all. Coloured 

 Plate of Almond Tumbler by Dean Wolstenholme. 



(3.) "A SET OP Six LIFE -SIZE COLOURED PORTRAITS OP 

 PIGEONS, viz., THE ALMOND, BLACK-MOTTLED, BALDHEAD, 

 AND BEARD TUMBLERS, CARRIER, AND POUTER. From Paint- 

 ings by Dean Wolstenholme. Published by J. M. Eaton, 7, 

 Islington Green, London, Dec. 8, 1852." 



(4.) "A TREATISE ON THE ART OF BREEDING AND 

 MANAGING TAME, DOMESTICATED, FOREIGN, AND FANCY 

 PIGEONS. By John Matthews Eaton. Published for, and 

 to be obtained of, the Author, 81, Upper Street, Islington Green, 



